...after the third contract year, and (7) put off guaranteed base-salary until the last years. His strategies seem to be common sense but the average professional athlete entering the professional ranks is only 20 years old and has had little to no college education. The foundation for many successful renegotiated contracts is the athlete’s past performance and the team’s “what have you done for me lately” attitude. A productive player currently on the team’s roster has a better chance of signing a lucrative deal than one who has yet to prove himself. Contradictory to this is the player(s) selected in the annual sporting draft. The players selected highest in the draft are in a better position to negotiate a great deal than those drafted in lower rounds. Given these circumstances, how does a player and his agent strategize their negotiation and what tactics are used? What will be the target, resistance point, and best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA)? Since negotiation is a process, there are many steps to take, many concessions to make, and the player must be well prepared especially if he is not a high draft pick or...
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...Labor Laws and Unions – NFL Players Association The National Football League (NFL) continues to be one of the most profitable businesses in the United States because of its entertainment value and its growing popularity. Behind every great company though typically lie a few solid foundations that help with daily operations from management along with the employees itself. Starting in 1956, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) was put in place to protect current players, former players, and their families when it came to wages, hours of work, their rights as professional athletes, and their working conditions including life after the job is done ("History - Early Organizational Efforts", n.d). Some of the largest and most widely known legal issues that the union has put forth on the NFL have been the safety of current players along with what is being done to help former players and their families. Unfortunately, the NFL has seen many former players suffer from long term brain damage, psychological issues, and much more. This has put a lot more pressure on both the NFL and the NFLPA to ensure that both sides are working together to avoid further issues down the road. The belief is that the NFL had actively held back information regarding head injuries and the damage that could be done long term from its players and families along with them not providing proper care and education for players on this matter. Currently, 3,356 plaintiffs are fighting with...
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...Agreement (CBA) as we know it now was the culmination of player strikes, antitrust lawsuits and all sorts of other league turmoil. Eventually, the players agreed to a salary cap in return for free agency and an enhanced share of league revenues. Since then, the CBA has been extended several times, most recently in 2006. Seeing as how the 2006 extension passed by an overwhelming 30-2 vote among league owners, you’d think they would be fine with just extending the current agreement as it stands now. That couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, the reason we’re even talking about this now is because in 2008, a mere two years after the extension was signed, the owners unanimously voted to opt out of the agreement two years early (Brown). The concrete agreement might have seemed like a great idea at the time, but now the owner’s feel like the they were cheated. The theory is that former NFLPA executive director, Gene Upshaw caught the NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue in a moment of weakness and capitalized on the situation to push through an extension that would be feasible for the players only (Brown). Tagliabue was preparing to step down from his 17-year tenure as NFL Commissioner, which was marked by an unprecedented lack of labor strife. Not wanting to tarnish that legacy of harmonious relations between players and owners, Tagliabue was allegedly persuaded by Upshaw to sell the owners on a deal that gave players a 59.6% cut of revenues (Brown). The owners were given...
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...Batterman said. In the last three weeks, groups led by Goodell and NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith have made enough progress toward a CBA that it sparked optimism training camps could open on time late next month. But no one is saying a deal is imminent, and several owners are known to have strong questions about proposals being discussed with the players. A handful of NFL owners -- at least two of whom are from AFC teams -- believes the parameters of the deal being discussed don't adequately address the original issues the league wanted corrected from the 2006 CBA, sources told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter last Friday. This subplot comes at a time when the NFL and NFLPA have made considerable progress, much of it on broad-picture items. The two sides, according to a source, have agreed to an unofficial timeline as to how events such as training camp and free agency would play out if there is an agreement on the more significant elements of the deal. Each side is eager to get something done before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis rules on the league's request to permanently block an injunction that originally lifted the lockout. That injunction had been on hold while the three-man appeals panel considers the case, but one of the judges warned the owners and players they both wouldn't like the decision. The first preseason game, at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, is scheduled for Aug. 7. That makes these meetings critical...
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...2013 Third Year Keepers and Beyond Foot Notes. ADP is taking from http://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/adp/overall.php If the ADP of a third year keeper has already been slotted to a first or second year keeper, said player will be moved to the next round available. ADP is in italics 1st. Pattis Pulfizers(jacob) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Larry Fitzgerald 28.3. - Third Round Maurice Jones Drew 23.5 -Fourth Round 2nd. Any D will do (Katie) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Jamal Charles 4.5 - First Round Matt Forte 15.2 - Second Round Steven Jackson 17.5 – Third Round Vincent Jackson 37.3 – Fourth Round 3rd. Willnumbers(will) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position NONE 4th InTrestmanWeTrust (James) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Aaron Rodgers 12.8 - Second Round 5th The Power Tower (David) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Marshawn Lynch 5.7 - First Round Adrian Foster 3.3 -Second Round Roddy White 31.5 - Fourth Round 6th Coyotes(Justin) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Chris Johnson 18.8 - Second Round Marques Colston 42.3 Fifth Round 7th Ketchup Bottle - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Hakeem Nicks 54.7 - Sixth Round 8th Inflatable Dates (Mike) - Third Year Keepers and Beyond Average Drafted Position Ray Rice 7.0 - First Round Peyton Manning 20- Second Round 9th Rocky’s Renegades (Marcus) - Third Year Keepers...
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...he will tie Walter Payton's record (eight) for the most thrown by a non-quarterback. Brown, Smith, Payton ... some of the ultra-elite names. Brown still has to top the list. Payton was more athletic, but I'd take Tomlinson over Smith. Barry Sanders doesn't get love from the hard-core NFL heads, but ask any defensive player who ever tried to tackle him how difficult that was. Tomlinson should be mentioned with Peyton Manning as the top candidates for the NFL most valuable player this season. And the way things are going Atlanta's 2001 draft-time decision to trade Tomlinson for Michael Vick is starting to look Bowie-over-Jordan foolish. And here's a piece of advice for those fantasy league owners lucky enough to have him: If you meet him, show a little appreciation. "They don't ever really say thank you," Tomlinson said of his encounters with fantasy players. "Most of the time, it's all about the next game, what have you done for me lately? It's always, 'LT, I need two touchdowns.' 'I need 100 yards.' " As a fan of the game, I'll say thanks, for the performance on the field and the community involvement off it -- "He's a better man than he is a player," Neal said. As a sportswriter, I'll say thanks for making the job a lot easier. LT happened. End of...
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...acknowledge John Schneider the most, who is the team general manager, for building a top-notch football team. Schneider's profession is one of the most complex and burdensome career. Before Schneider was hired as sports general manager, the Seattle Seahawks were an abysmal team. The Seattle Seahawks organization expected Schneider from the get-go to convert the franchise in to a top-notch; also, that...
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...Football players more likely to develop neurodegenerative disease, study finds By Nadia Kounang, CNN updated 4:38 PM EDT, Wed September 5, 2012 [pic] (CNN) -- Just hours before the 2012 NFL season kicks off, a new study suggests that professional football players are three times more likely to have neurodegenerative diseases than the general population. When researchers specifically looked at Alzheimer's disease and ALS -- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease -- that risk increased to four times greater than the rest of us. The study, published Wednesday in the medical journal Neurology, surveyed nearly 3,500 retired NFL players who were in the league between 1959 and 1988. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a division of the Centers for Disease Control, had been following this group of players since the early '90s, when the NFL asked the institute to evaluate them for their risk of cardiovascular disease. This time, the authors decided to look at the neurological outcomes of the players by specifically evaluating the autopsies of 334 players. "We looked at all the death certificates, and Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and ALS had significant contribution to the death," according to study co-author Elliot Lehman. When tallying those specific diseases, the authors found that among the 334 players, seven had died from Alzheimer's and another seven with ALS. Three players had died with Parkinson's disease, but the authors...
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...The National Football League (Assignment 1) Michael Davis BUS 475 February 2, 2014 Dr. Joaquin M. Angles The National Football League My choice is the National Football League (NFL) which was founded on 20 August 1920. The NFL is made up of 32 teams across the United States; each team has 53 players on the team at the start of the regular season. The 32 teams are broken into two divisions; the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL original name was the American Football League and the name was change on 22 August 1922 to the National Football League. The NFL is the only major sport that does not have any teams outside of the United States. Each team has one majority owner and the owners elect the commissioner of the league; the commissioner oversees the daily rules and regulations of the league. The NFL ends a long season by two teams playing in the Super Bowl for the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The NFL has become the number one sport in America; most watched and biggest profits year after year. But with that said the NFL still has its issues going forward form profits, society and business. Most teams in the NFL are privately owned and finically statements are not release to the public. In my opinion the two key factors that can affect the success of the NFL or the ownership and customers (fans). I know that ownership is internal/external because the owner is not really seen as a part of the team. The owner is one of the...
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...found love. From filling up coolers, to being on the sidelines for every football game. Yes, I get called a “water girl”, but I do so much more. I get to tape wrists and ankles before games. I get to assist the head athletic trainer on the field when an injury occurs. Finding this was a light and a blessing to life. I never thought I would find something that would make me so happy to wake up everyday. I was lost before finding this. Everyday I watched my friends find and do what they love, yet i couldn’t find it yet. Then at a football game I watched as the student athletic trainers at the time, and realized that I wanted to do it. The first time I stepped onto the practice field, was the day I realized...
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...This is called self-evaluation and by self-evaluating people are able to see where they have room for improvement, because while someone may be the best player on the team, they aren’t perfect and have something that they can work on to better themselves. By having everyone receive an award, no one loses. Without losing it is more of a challenge to self-evaluate and people can’t necessarily be competitive or make a goal to win an award . If only a few people win, then children can learn that it isn’t necessarily a bad thing to lose and not win an award, it just shows them that they should think about how to improve. Without being able to self-evaluate, it would be very challenging to get...
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...ES 260 – Race and Sports: Critical Thinking Writing Assignment One. The National Football League, most commonly referred to as the NFL, is a $163 billion- dollar professional sports juggernaut that is historically and presently under scrutiny for their league’s diversity policies and practices, especially when it comes to the hiring practices of the integral position of head coach. Frederick “Fritz” Pollard was the first black coach hired in NFL history in 1921 when he was named co-coach of the Akron Pros (at the time, they belonged to the American Professional Football Association). 70 years passed before another black head coach was able to roam the sidelines and lead a professional football organization. Head Coach, Art Shell, of the (then) Oakland...
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...The Atlanta Falcons is an NFL team located in Atlanta, Georgia. They are apart of the South Division in the NFC. Arthur Blank is the current owner of the sport organization. Most natives of Atlanta consider the Falcons a treasure of the city. The Falcons are the oldest NFL franchise in the Deep South. In 1965, after the Atlanta Fulton County stadium was built, the city wanted a football team to call their own. In the 60s there were two football leagues, the AFL and the NFL, and both of them wanted the team in Atlanta. So the city had to choose. On June 30 1965, the city picked the NFL and the team’s first owner Rankin Smith. On that day, the Atlanta Falcons franchise began. Rankin Smith paid $8.5 million for ownership of the team. At that...
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...concussions throughout their career in sports. In the last 3 years in high school football 400,000 concussions occurred. Concussions are a problem, at times is hard to detect, because the symptoms are sometimes hard to spot and in many cases symptoms can last for day, weeks, years and even life time. Through study they found that adults can heal faster than young athletes, and they can heal in just two weeks. Sport concussions are becoming bigger problems in all sports and researchers are trying harder to find how concussions occur, how to prevent them to make all athletes safer while playing and how to make sure all athletes are safe to play after a concussion. One way to help preventing concussions is to understand how they occur. Fist a concussions is defined as a complex pathophysiological process that affects the brain, typically induced by trauma to the brain. A concussion happens when there is trauma to the brain. Trauma can happen when you take a blow to head region. It can also happen when you get something called the whiplash effect to the body. The whiplash effect is when the impact to your body accelerates your head causing the trauma to your brain. With contact sports there are many ways concussions can occur. In any tackling sport, without proper tackling technique, the player can hurt not only the one they tackle but they can get a concussion from tackling. With football a lot of players are taught to lead with their head with can cause head to head contact and that’s...
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...! ! ! ! ! ! Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! There is a dark cloud hanging over the world of contact sports and it is growing at an alarming rate. With the size and speed of today’s athletes, the sports of football and hockey have become more exciting, fast paced, wide open, and fun to watch. However, there is another consequence of these ever growing athletes on their sports. They have made the collisions in them increasingly more violent. The velocity that these athletes hurl themselves through the air has created an atmosphere that could not have been imagined when these sports were created. First described in the year 1928 (McKee 2010), Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease. ! CTE is famously regarded to be the cause of retired NFL linebacker, Junior Seau’s suicide. The disease deteriorated his brain and hindered his ability to think logically. Seau is not the only retired NFL player found to have had CTE through autopsy following their death. Mike Webster was the first football player found to have CTE, when scientists found the characteristic buildup of the tau protein in his brain. Another significant find in CTE affected brains such as his, includes the shrinkage of the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory and thinking processes. The disease was originally noticed in boxers, first being called “punch drunk.” These boxers were described as...
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